Fishery legislation considered with regard to protection of fishes and other organisms of the Adriatic

Abstract

       The paper contains an abstract of the body of laws and regulations concerned with protection of fish species and other marine organisms in what are now territorial aters of Yugoslavia, enacted by competent authorities in the course region’s history.

       In order to offer a better survey of measures taken for the purpose of protection of the marine fauna, the author gives separate descriptions of steps taken under the rule of Austria-Hungary, of prewar Yugoslavia and, since 1945, by the present Yugoslav authorites.

         To make the survey more complete, the paper also contains a short description of regulations valid in Italy concerned with protection of fish species and other marine organisms living along the western Adriatic shores.

         A relevant conclusion is ultimatively drawn.